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Altitude, pollution, poverty, noise, and toxic smells: Bogotá, located some 2600 meters high, rolls out over the Sabana de Bogotá like an extraordinary ugly carpet. Its physical impact is as inescapable as it is overwhelming; the smog so dense you feel as though you’re personally running on petrol and the police posted on every corner(…)

There is no real secret to learning a foreign language – you just have to practice – but that doesn’t mean you should sit in your room with your face buried in a conjugation book all day. If you really want to practice, you’ve got to get out in the real world, have drinks with(…)

I’m sitting on an old, frayed, beige couch and it’s full of holes. It’s the kind of couch you see in frat houses or crappy dive bars. But it’s comfortable, and in this case, I wouldn’t be anywhere else…it’s the greatest couch in the world. It’s attached to a dive resort on the island of(…)

Take Off Day I’ve never been a fan of flying. The crying baby two rows in front. The middle-­aged dude snoring like a freight train on your left. The lady who believes she has chief rights to your armrest. But no matter how bad it gets, you know it will eventually be over and you’ll step off the(…)